. . . he said hed remove Mexicans from our countr . .

. . Cut off your nose to spite youre face Dad

    What are you talking about?

Do you cut your lawngot a big piece of property

Once upon a tim . .

. . Now

   No.

No ya don

Who cuts your lawn

I have a servic . .

. . Who  Cuts your lawn

                                        Thaswha I thought

Hes a piece of shitbeen a piece of shit since the Central Park Five

                                                                      Didnt think in my life Id have to contend with this fuck

Watch your language, son . .

. . Cunts earned my language

 

    Anya thought he was gonna send Mexicans back to Spain

Damn right. Where they belong.

    Grampa really messed you up

Mexicans

Niggers

Kikes Jews

    Chinks  Slants

Polack forgot when Polish families migrated to America they were thought shit

Like Dagos

Micks

    Catholics

 

Grampa was Catholicjah

He was.

He got all caught up in his white skin included himself among other whites

He was white.

Not the right white Dad

    Really

Send Mexicans back to Spain

adamant  Where they belong.

 

Lets try not to have these conversations

                                               I wanna keep lovinya

Keep your mout shut

                          Please

Please Dad

1513,  Saturday,  6  12. 25

1946,  Sunday – Pearl Harbor 1941,  7  12. 25

. . . Word of the Da . .

. . You were tempted

How’s that?

Please

 

    Please what?

Acronym

I was. Almost.

                 But if I did you’d throw a hissyfit.

 

No

      Id berate you yet again for not using your words

You use acronyms to irritate me

Play thashit you played on your little brothers

                                                    If I were them as soon as I was big enough Id have punched you in the mout

You wouldn’t have.

I woud

          I encouraged my little brothers tha when they thought they were man enough come for me they did

 

And?

Broke my Irish twins nose

                              The second brother five years younger I gave two black eyes third brother wasnt going to have it fourth  I reminded him of his old brothers

Wisely  he backed off

Chubby as he was I woud have broken his ribs curbed his intake uptake whahavya

    You really fought your brothers?

I defended myself

You provoked them.

If they thought they were man enough

                                          If I were they I woud have come after me too

Unfortunate for them they forgot I made money sparring local boxers Golden Glove kids

    Paid well

So minimise the shit out of acronyms or I might punch you for your indiscretion

                                                                       W  O  D

You were tempted to say

 

I was.

Wha of it

It is couchant.

Nice word  No fishhooks all letters on a line

Yeah.

        As you say.  Never understand what you’re talking about.

Obvious  No need to say

                            Tacere

 

Adjective. Means an animal, usually, lying with their body resting on their legs, their heads raised.

Sphinx

Couch

Possibly.

J D Vance couchant

How’s that?

Fucking a couch

                   Im taking creative license liberty

As apparently he was

Whod look for cum in a couchpoor motherfucker looking for spare change  Shiiit

1425,  Saturday,  6  12. 25

1428,  Sunday – Pearl Harbor 1941,  7  12. 25

they worked the fisheries   Alaska  Pacific Northwest

she finally slipped its grasp found a better job though she was going to miss the sea

he remained toiling away lacked the enthusiasm to look for other work was making a good living access to free fish salmon halibut pollock shellfish shrimp  freezer stuffed

So you finally got out?

I did. A couple of months back. I’m so happy.

I’m happy for you.

But you’re not happy.

No.

      You know me bitch and complain but lack the . . . the . . inspirationhard to find commiserate pay free fish.

There’s that.

                  You’ll still hook me up?

Whatever whenever you’d like, I’m up to my eyeballs.

Thank you.

You’re welcome.

                          Company’s having its Christmas party next weekend.

You goin . .

. . Would you like to come?

she smiled he always had a thing for her  she was flattered but wasnt attracted

                                                                           I’m flying home next Friday.

I appreciate the invitation though. Thank you.

Think nothing of it. It’ll be another White Elephant party.

                                                           I’m excited for when my gift's opened.

You wouldn’t believe it.

                           he laughednear a belly laugh

You got to say. That laugh is just too good.

still laughing

                               It’s a peach if I say so myself.

Tell me.

I painted a big canvas with a seriously fuckedup comiclooking fish on it and spattered it slashed it with paint. I put it inside a fiftyfive inch flat screen cardboard box.

    And?

             Knowing you there’s more to it.

Yeah.

         At the bottom of it I wrote Pollock.

  

1311,  Saturday,  6  12. 25

1104,  Sunday – Pearl Harbor 1941,  7  12. 25

working in Alaska on a fishing boats part of her responsibilities were to collect as many halibut otoliths as she possibly could

                     they are critical to determining a fishs age growth rates birthplace migration patterns  the environmental conditions  temperature salinity diet

was hard to believe their ear stones or ear bones could possibly reveal all that information

but its been since 1899

she dropped that little fact on him made his jaw swing open

                                                                   that didnt happen often

it tickled him pink when it did

 

 ololith

off he goes

               she said soimmediately he hollered Lilith in his head

he had a thing for Lilith

the Biblical Lilith the Jews revealed

                                      cant have Adam refused anything and she  his first wife  refused to be subservient to him sounds like the Bible

                                           pulling back the curtain

Adam and Eve had two son  Cain and Abel  daughters too

Cain kills Abel so very Bible

Cain has children

with his sister?

Old Testament book of Leviticus calls incest detestable 

                                                              forbade it

  quite the conundrum

helped codify his atheism

has yet to meet a woman named Lilith

keeps his fingers crossed

1320,  Saturday,  6  12. 25

1204,  Sunday – Pearl Harbor 1941,  7  12. 25

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/science-data/age-and-growth

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-hidden-life-stories-fish-ears.html 

Idonwannago heard the tinge the whine in his voice  couldnt pull that back

she heard it too

                  Ohyou’re definitely going. 

thought Gawddammit

It’s a white elephant Christmas party.

I don know whatha is

she resisted tapping her foot

I cant remembergrade school mebbe grade school   last went to a Christmas party

Not to a company Christmas party?

I had to work withem

                         Tha was plenty

Socialise withem

Why woud I do tha

                      I had a society

    You had a society?

Small

Intimate

  Jah

 

Whellbuddy.  You’re going to this one.

                                         I’m dying to show you off. she smiled dimples  winked

I aint alltha

Ohbut you are.

her enthusiasm was a wonder

It’d make me happy.

                       You want to make me happ . .

. . We coud stay at your place an Ill pleaseya till the cows cum home

Cum?    sarcastically Been there done that.

                                             Not to say I don’t love that.  Please. played her lower lip

Careful  Little bird might light an shit on that

Never has.

Maybe one day

                      White elephant

Yes. You wrap an inexpensive item and one by one by lottery people chose a gift. They can be traded away once or twice or sometimes not. House rules.

Ah

Ah?

Wha

    Something up your sleeve?

These people fun

Fun?

A sense of humour

I think so.

Whens this

Next week Saturday, the Thirteenth, Seven, drinks, hor d'oeuvres, informal, got a Christmas sweater?

Christmas sweater

Nevermind.

 

he went

kept his wrapped gift in a brownpaper bag so she didnt see

stealthily snuck it under the tree

House rules

traded only if someone wanted to

 

 

he had an nice timebetter than he thought he would

taking her homeshe was flying East early Sunday to spend Christmas with her family

                                                                                           used substantial vacation time

So what did you think?

I think Im happy I didnt pick that fruit cake

she laughed

               The Ur and only fruit cake in the world regifted around the world.

he smiled was still terriblyhumoured by the expression on the choosers face

                                                                      Poor guy

I’ll tell you, couldn’t have happened to better personhe can be a prick. Kudos to whoever thought that gift.

Kudos

1320,  Saturday,  6  12. 25

1013,  Sunday -- Pearl Harbor 1941,  7  12. 25

tinder

tender

kindling

rekindling

collecting kindling to start a fire

                                          he was confusedbut didnt mind

confusion is like underwear

                                   wore unseen

it actually   notreally wasnt his

                                          hers

nothing wrong with thatwhen she left she was strivingstriking out for herself

                                                                                   make her mark

                                                                                       found

making marks wasnt easy

                                unfortunately

                                 particularly

for women

              harder

       for attractive women

          who are bright

men want to paw

 women resent

when she left he didnt say

he had no intentions of discouraging her

she had tools

shed learn patience

when they came together he couldnt wait to hear of those who crossed her

 

he had learned patience

 

tender

kindling 

rekindling

   hed learn

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